Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-11
THE NOVEMBER Ii

kind OF an election, whether in your day
or mine / cannot say, but 1t will come
as surely as that this world IS to be
EdeDiZed and the crooked made straight.
The two candidates will be nominated,
not in dirty grogshop caucus, but in g
place where man can go without being
nauseated by the malodor OF whisky,
onions, cabbage and tobacco. Among
sill good people in social life
we have now the rule that you
should put the best construction
upon mans actions, and il you can not
say something good Of him, say nothing
st all. That rule in the time of which
speak will be applied to the political
campaign. We will take our candidate
and extol his better qualities. We will
have picture Of him in his best mood,
and biography bringing out all the
noble deeds OF his life. When we speak
of the opposing candidate we will admit
all his excellences, but compare the
two men, and say cur man is the better.
Our platform, our speeches, and our
newspaper columns will have nothing
that sounds or reads like billingsgate or
ranccr On election day, If the wind
blows from the northeast and we feel
chilly by standing at the polls, we will
have hot lemonade or Mocha. A mGl will
be es moral and pure on election day as
he is on sacramentsi dsy. If nothing is
involved in the election but the question
who shall have ahe offices, instead Of
standing in q political meeting, harrsngu-
ing the audience by the hour upon Ques-
tions not at all involved, we will come
out on the platform snd frankly say
Gentlemen, this is very important cleo
ton, because it decides
THE QUESTION OF LIVELIHOOD
for great many people. There is the
Mayors salary of 80 many thousand dol
lars, and the District Attorneys salary
OF SO many thousand, and the sherif's
salary of SO many thousand, and the
Presidents salary OF go many thousand,
and we have the great many friends who
are now out of position, and these men
now in Office have had the emoluments
long enough, Now give US chance.
l have, myself, my eye on an office, aud
although I sm not candidate on the
ticket now before you, l shall get an Gp-
pointment under the administration, and
that will be of great service, for the fact
is am hard up, end | want the law
iul salary for some good position.
Some of these men in Office have hsd the
opportunities not only OF supporting
their families but laying up something
for a rainy day. Now give US an equal
opportunity. have lovely wife and
beautiful children and some relativts de-
pendent upon my success, and | tell you
plainly that my reason for being on this
platform tonight is not because | an
afraid the American eagle will be shot in
her sublime fight, but because [ want,
and the presiding officer of this meeting
wants, and ell the vice presidents OF this
meeting want, and the committee who
got up the meeting want, and many OF
these gentlemen who clap their hands at
the eloquence of the speakers want
coed, honest living for hard work done
in the service Of the city and country.
There will be no hypocrisy in speech
ike that, and nothing wrong. II q man
gets $4,000 or $4,000 or $4,000 salary in
the public service it is Just as honorable
a. though he got 1t by selling dry goods
or in daily wages for saving logs. The
ideal electioneerirg campaign OF which
speak may be far distant, but so fer Rs
you and are concerned we may our
selves practice it. Remember that
AN ELECTION LIE
is as bad as any other lie, that SANDER IL
November is SIS bad IS SANDER in June
But few men come out OF the ordeal OF
CITY, stste1o nstional elections rs good
as when they went in.
But cannot help sympathizing with
the multitudes Of disappointed people at
this time of the year, the vast multitude
all over the land who have failed to get
and the vast multitude who
in few days will be disappointed by
non election. For every position there
are atlesst 100 candidates, hence Of ne
cessity ninety-nine applicants are or will
be disappointed. By an inexorable law
we cannot have more than six presidents
IN 8 generation. What discouraging
thing to seek the presidency wher, cut Of
the l. 900 who think themselves fit for the
office, only five men Can get it. There is
more probability that any Of them will
be struck with lightning than that they
will get TO be President. The time WAS
when men SO much shrapk b3ck from the
of Office they had By pen
alties to be compelled to take it. The
court Of Plymouth in 1852 enacted that
whoever should refuse the office CT Gov
ernor should psY EGO sterling, unless he
should be chosen two years successively,
and whoever should refuse the office OF
Councillor or Magistrate should pay f10.
No more such compulsion is necessary,
and the scramble is terrible, not
ell the peril, fnan-
cial, social, moral and eternal.
But # you have mission in public at
fairs, advance confidently. Whatever Our
hands find to do in any department Ct
civic Or religious duty, let US do it and
that quickly or we will never do it at all.
Napoleon said that the Austrians failed
at Rivoli because they did not know the
value Of ten minutes. have known men
who at some crisis of life, where great
converge, lost two worlds,
earth and heaven, because they did not
know the value of one minute.
Angosture 3ittarz DO not only distia gaish
themselves by their fksagAHd aromatic ocor
Ofh apd thnV